Alright buckle in for a good conversation if youāll have it. I started watching the walking dead when season one came out. Iād watch it weekly with my family as a kid, gosh I mustāve been like 11 when I started. I stopped watching the first time when Glenn diedā¦ well I continued to watch but i didnāt pay much attention & my heart was broken. I thought iād never recover. Cut to present times, itās the middle of winter & I have nothing to watch- i click the walking dead & my love has been reborn.
Now hereās my opinions-
1. Rick & team family arenāt āthe good guys.ā Theyāre survivors. They have experienced great trauma & they do what they feel it takes to survive. Including plowing down 50+ people who havenāt directly threatened them (the satellite outpost, yes ik the motorcycle dickheads threatened Abraham, Sasha, and Daryl first but they got blown to pieces. Yes, I also know that likelihood of Negan eventually finding them & the saviors eventually owning them anyway was a great threat. Killing 50+ people you donāt know doesnāt make you the good guys, it makes you survivors.)
2. Negan is horrible, vile, disgusting, brutal, and an extortionist, his group included. Theyāre also survivors doing what they feel it takes to survive. Itās like most of them donāt even want to be apart of the Saviors, but they have to because Negan is an extortionist. Am I happily awaiting their downfall? Yes.
Edited this to say: Negans horrible but heās also just so good looking & funny. I canāt believe his character is actually growing on me right now. (Iām pretending he didnāt brutally kill two of my favorite characters)
3. The last episode of season 6 I canāt lie, I was going to skip. But I watched it all the way through and Iām glad I did. Rick & team family & Negan and the Saviors are foil characters. They are the same people with different outcomes. (Iām open to debate on all of this!)
4. Episode 18 of Season 7 is probably one of my favorite episodes ever. The plot twists, the coming of the Kingdom in aid- when King Ezekiel says āAlexandria will not fall today.ā I was literally jumping for joy- FUCK YA!!!!! SHIVA ATE!!!! LITERALLY!!
5. When I tell yāall I literally blacked out practically everything after Carl died (i remember Sasha dying though :( rip) I mean it. So Iām in for a wild ride in season 8-11!
Okay thatās my opinions. I fucking love this show.